University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
MYRSINACEAE 
Maesa ramentacea Wall. 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Weedy tree to 10 m, trunk ca. 7 cm in 
diam. , heavily covered with moss, young stems 
(3-5 cm in diam.) with conspicuous, raised 
lenticels ca. 5 mm in diam. ; flowers white, 
anthers yellow. 
Locality: Ujung Kular Reserve, Genung Cibinua, 
Base camp 3 km E of Taman Jaya, Taman Jaya 
River watershed. 
Habitat: Above river valley ca. 100 m, on ridge 
in secondary forest, associates: 
Aralidium, Albizia, Nauclea, etc. 
250 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3340, May 12, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti-AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z35S9-F, U44Z3560-G 
U44Z3561-H. 
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer 
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of 
Natural History and Herbarium Bogoriense, LIPI. 
Please notify Field Museum Herbarium of any new 
determination of this collection, specifying that 
it is a University of Illinois at Chicago voucher. 
